Sentences with phrase «new magnet schools»

For example, after spending billions building and operating magnet schools across the state in the wake of a state Supreme Court decision ordering Connecticut to desegregate Hartford schools, state lawmakers in 2009 passed a moratorium on spending state money for new magnet schools until the state education commissioner crafts a comprehensive plan for school choice in the state.

State says it's unsureSchool choice: Future of new magnet schools uncertainOn trial: Is educational opportunity sufficient everywhere in CT?

As a result of Sheff v. O'Neill, in the past ten years, the state has spent $ 1.4 billion to renovate and build new magnet schools, which are designed as reduced isolation schools that draw students from the city and suburbs.

Lincoln Heights is among four Wake County schools that will share a $ 14.9 million federal grant to spend on new magnet school themes.

There are many new magnet schools cropping up across the country.

At the LAUSD Board meeting this Tuesday, March 19, Board Member Bennett Kayser is slated to introduce a resolution that would create new rules governing how new magnet schools are created — and who has the authority to approve them.

Under the plan, unanimously approved by the board late last month, the busing program will be replaced by a voluntary integration program making extensive use of new magnet schools.

Under the agreement approved by the two sides, Connecticut was to open two new magnet schools in the Hartford area each year between 2003 and 2007.

The attorneys cite three categories of laws that are being challenged: the state has put a moratorium on new magnet schools, «arcane and dysfunctional» laws that govern public charter schools and the state's inter-district open choice enrollment program that penalizes school districts that accept students from inner - city school districts.

And here the chief characteristic of this case emerged: The judge, in effect, imposed higher taxes on Kansas City, and on the state, to build the new magnet schools.

Principal Cheryl Kloczko started the school year «under a microscope» at a new magnet school focusing on multiple intelligences, and the scrutiny grew more intense as the year progressed.

Prior to joining Lipscomb University, Dr. McQueen was awarded multiple awards for both her teaching and the curriculum design of a new magnet school.

The Houston School Board has voted to open two new magnet schools that will emphasize science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Prior to joining Lipscomb University, McQueen was awarded multiple awards for both her teaching and the curriculum design of a new magnet school.

As a superintendent of schools from one of the potential sending towns to Windham's new STEM Magnet school, I'm sure you are aware of some of the very serious concerns that have been raised about the management of Windham's new magnet school.

The Malloy Administration defended their effort to date and while the state has opened a series of new magnet schools and implemented programs to provide some incentives to suburban towns to accept more urban students, those monitoring the developments over the past two decades recognize the state's overall efforts have been extremely limited when compared to the magnitude of the problem.

Last week we learned that an organization, ironically called «Our Piece of the Pie, Inc.,» is proposing to open a charter high school in Windham, despite the fact that Windham already has a high school and a new magnet school that is almost ready to open.

In the summer of 2009, Windham's local officials, school administrators, teachers and parents joined together to lay out a plan for a new magnet school to be built in the community.

Within weeks, the Windham Magnet School Building Committee was persuaded to drop its idea of creating an Environmental and Cultural Magnet School and making Windham's new magnet school at Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) School.

Also, attorneys representing the state have been adamant recently that it won't fund any new magnet schools in Hartford, and Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has said he doesn't believe the state has an obligation to open more magnet schools.

Typically, when a new magnet schools opens, the state phases in funding for enrollment growth by opening a new grade or two each year until the school is at capacity.

What he failed to explain at that big press conference was that while taxpayer are on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars in new borrowing to pay for the construction of new magnet schools, Malloy failed to provide the funding needed to actually open the school and fill the classrooms.

It was only a few months ago (January 2014), that Malloy traveled to East Hartford to cut the ribbon for the state's newest magnet school, the $ 57 million Connecticut River Academy that was scheduled to open this September.

In an attempt to provide Windham's students with enhanced educational opportunities, the state of Connecticut authorized and paid the vast majority of costs for a new magnet school for Windham.

While the Governor used his annual budget speech to brag about his election year gimmick to provide a «sales and gas tax refund of $ 55 to single filers earning less than $ 200,000 and $ 110 to joint filers earning less than $ 400,000,» Malloy failed to explain that his budget DOES NOT INCLUDE the $ 18.8 million that is needed to keep Connecticut's public magnet schools operating, nor does it provide the money needed for the new magnet schools that are opening.

In fact, in this case, the State Department of Education will give the new magnet school $ 13,000 a year for each student.